Saw-gummer.



PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908.

GLE. HAWKINS, SAW GUMMER.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 5, 1907.

UNITED STATESPATENT, OFFICE.

GEORGE E. HAWKINS, or WELLBORN, FLORIDA, ASSIGNOBOF ONE-HALF To T. .T. HACKNEY, F

' 1o cutters to accomplish the gumming operarality of diagonally upwardly extending WELLBORN, FLORIDA.

ISAW-GU'MMERI.

No. 879,9 6 2. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 25, 1908.

' Applicationfiled August 5.1907. Serial No. 387.132.

To all whom it mag concern: teeth B against which the 'sameis adjusted v Be it known that I, GEORGE E. HA'WKINs, asshownL The adjusting thumb screw 3 is a citizen of the United States, residing at rovided with a U- haped frame 7 having. its W el-lborn, in the county of Suwanee and egs 8 similarly slotted adapted. to receive 5 State of Florida, have invented certain new the saw blade therein, it being seen that the and useful 1m royements in Saw-Gummers, thumbscrew' 2 may be loosened and the of which the 0 lowing is a specification. thumb screw 3 screwed up tightly, to obtain 'Myinvention relates 'to saw gummersof the vertical adjustment of the saw blade A. that class employing transverse pjmilling The frame 1 is further provi led with a plus ots tion, and particularly contemplate'sthe pro- 9 cut in both the side members thereof and vision ofa simple and'inexpensive structure alined-therebetween for the reception within whichmay be readily and quickly adjusted a selected one of said slots, of an arbor 10 to different sizedsaw blades. having a milling cutter 11- formed thereon 1'15 1' 'My invention further and specifically re and extending transversely between the side sides in the following features 'of'co'nstrucmembers of said frame. The arbor '10 is 'tion, arrangement and operation as will be thus loosely held within the selected-one of hereinafter described with reference to the slots 9, and the saw blade must be adjusted accompanying drawing forming a part of vertically and tightly 'thereagainst as de- 20 this specificatiomin whichlike numerals arescribed, to a position shown in Fig. 1 in used to designate like parts throughout th .which said arbor and its milling cutter will I several figures, and in which v be prevented from displacement. The arbor Figureifis alertical section'al'view taken 10 is provided with a squared outer end 12 through my improved'stiqmture showing the, adapted to receive a suitable handle to rotate 2'5; saw -blade adjustably held tiiererrr-iarrtr m said arbor, having a squared opening or bore elevation, Fig'. 2 is an end elevation of-my therein. I imprOvedQd'eVice in operative engagement Having fully described myinvention, I about a sawblade, and Fig. 3 is a side elevaclaim: p Xtion'of the upper pprtion of my improved he combination in a saw gummer, of a iaostructure, the lowe portion: having been frame comprising. separated parallel side a broken away; and the'upper adjusting screw members adapted to receive a saw blade bephi}, gbeenremoved. H tween them, and each of said sidemembers In the practical embodiment of'my'invenprovided with a plurality of d1agonal slots,

tion", I provide a narrow elongated rectangu the slots of one member .almmg with the 3'-{-.-'.lar"frame I having upper and loweradjustslots of the other, and a transverse rotatable ing thumb screws- 12 and 3 respectively, arbor adapted. forinsertion within a selec'flfll threadedlyengaging through opposite ends; pair of' said slots, and having a milling cutter "83 .of said frame. The frame l'is adapted, as is ormed thereon between said side members clearly. shown in- Figs. 1 and 2, to receive a .of said frame, and adjustable means for ad- A d-saw blade A'therethrough, and said frame 1 justing said saw blade within said frame i' s further provided with alined pairs of toward saidcutter, substantially as described.

iat iblade A for a ready alinem'ent' of the same upper and lower transverse adjusting thumb In testimony whereof I aflix' my signature screws 4 and. 5 respectively. The thumb inpresence of two witnesses.

.flsc'rews aand 5 abut ,each side of the saw GEORGE EIH *w'ithinthe frame 1. The adjusting thumb Witnesses: ,screw' 2 is-provided-with 'a block 6 preferably W. R. MOORE, of a softwood to prevent damage to thesaw A. S. S'rANsEL. 

